Public Safety continues Thanksgiving tradition with 5,000 lbs of turkey

TOWSON, MD – For many, our biggest worry on Thanksgiving Day is gaining a few pounds. The reality? There are those who won’t have anything to eat or celebrate.

Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services inmates will once again prepare turkeys so the less fortunate can have a hot meal on Thanksgiving Day.

Inmate workers from Maryland Correctional Enterprises, Public Safety’s prison industry program, will process and cook the 275 donated turkeys, 5,500 lbs. for the Bea Gaddy Thanksgiving Feast in Baltimore as they have for close to 30 years-free of charge.

Bea Gaddy began the tradition of feeding the hungry back in 1981. She used her lottery winnings of $250 to feed 49 of her neighbors. Long after her death, the tradition has been continued by her family and friends who feed more than 50,000 people every year.

Public Safety continues to be a part of that tradition.

Maryland Correctional Enterprises is one of the top prison industry agencies in the nation, providing employment and vocational training to more than 2000 inmates.

What: Turkeys are prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner

When: Tuesday, November 15, 2016- 8:30 A.M.

Where: MCE Meat Plant at Maryland Correctional Institution- Hagerstown (MCI-H), located on Roxbury Road, three miles south of I-70 Exit 29 near Hagerstown.

Members of the media must R.S.V.P. no later than Monday, November 14.